“…So far, several reversible watermarking methods have been presented. Most existing methods belong to three types: difference expansion [1,2,5,8,10,11,[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26], histogram-shifting [3,9,12,14,15,27,28], and prediction-based methods [4,13,[29][30][31][32][33][34][35]. Difference expansion was introduced by Tian [2].…”